I have an Inspiron 9100 2GB RAM with the ATI9800 Radeon video Card.  I recently upgraded my video driver and immediately began having the infinate loop issue that many of us have seen.  I sent in the error report to Mickeysoft and they said it was a known problem and to contact my PC vendor for the latest drivers.  Well imagine that ! LOL  Problem was that I am already using the latest video drivers from Dell (A05).  I even back rev'd them to A04 and had the same friggin issue.  I did a fair amount of research on the web looking for a solution and ran across this info which ... fixed my issue for now with version A04 of the drivers.  I am about to load up A05 and do it again and see if it stays fixed.  But in the meantime those of you with the issue may want to give this a try.

 

Cheers, RDJ

Help Desk Lead

ITTSystems

Al-Taqaddum, IRAQ

 

 

ati2dvag.dll - problem - infinite loop:
Here is the fix that worked for me.

It's a problem with the video driver, device driver. ATI

If you're seeing ati2dvag.exe then search google for "remove ati2dvag.exe"
that one is a different issue.

Here's the fix for the infinite loop problem caused by ati2dvag.dll

Right click on My Computer
Choose Properties
Choose the Hardware(Tab)
Choose Device Manager(button)
Click the [+] next to System devices
Right click on CPU to AGP Controller  (it won't say CPU to AGP but INTELyadayada to AGP)
Choose the Update Driver(button)

Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
Choose Next(button)
Select "Don't search". I will choose the driver to install.
Choose Next(button)
Select PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Hit Next(button)
Hit Finish(button)
Reboot.